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Pasternack, a leading provider of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, greatly expands their portfolio of in-stock solid state PIN diode switches covering frequencies from 10 MHz to 67 GHz. 69 unique new models of 50 ohm PIN diode switches are available in compact connectorized package styles and display impressive isolation, insertion loss, and switching speed performance.

Keysight Technologies Inc. announced that the Keysight T4010S conformance test system is now the leader in the number of validated GCF 3CA LTE test cases and band combinations of any test platform.

Harris Corp. has received an $88 million order to supply electronic jammers for U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet aircraft. The jammers protect the Navy jets from sophisticated electronic threats, including modern integrated air defense systems. The order was received during the third quarter of Harris’ fiscal 2016.

Lime Microsystems has launched a crowd-funding campaign to bring its LimeSDR software defined radio platform into full-scale production.

Thales Alenia Space announced the official kickoff of its Stratobus R&D project, which aims to launch a demonstrator in 2018, followed by the first qualification and certification flights in 2020.

Wolfspeed, A Cree Company and a leading global supplier of GaN-on-SiC high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) with best-in-class reliability, released a new 28V, 30W GaN HEMT bare die at this year’s IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), which took place April 11–13, 2016 in Clearwater Beach, Fla.

Pickering Interfaces, a leading provider of signal switching and conditioning solutions, will showcase their broad catalog PXI of Ethernet LXI RF & Microwave switching solutions, including their newly announced PXI RF Multiplexer range (40-760), at the IEEE MTT-S 2016 International Microwave Symposium (IMS) at booth #1850 on May 24–26, 2016.

Cobham Antenna Systems has launched of a dual-band, gooseneck addition to the 'universal' spring mount range of omni-directional antennas.

IoT, 5G, Security and Privacy and the role of SMEs were the focus of the 20th meeting of the Global Standards Collaboration, hosted by TSDSI in New Delhi, India 26-27 April 2016.

Anritsu Co. continues to address the test needs of signal integrity (SI) engineers with the introduction of options for its VectorStar® and ShockLine™ vector network analyzers (VNAs). The VectorStar Eye Diagram and ShockLine Advanced Time Domain (ATD) options are part of the expanding SI capabilities offered by Anritsu and provide SI engineers with improved tools to conduct channel diagnostics and model validation of high-speed digital circuit designs.